My deepest fear brought about by Trump would be a degradation of this Republic and possible replacement with Oligarchy. The pieces for this have been systematically put in place since he came into office in personnel and legislation/EO and it is unclear if the safeguards against this are active and free to do so. If the FBI and Judiciary are quiet, this could happen relatively quickly and efficiently.

A coup is a military take over, those weren't coups. You could argue that Lincoln's actions in Maryland and Kentucky during the Civil War were coups as the army under his orders deposed the state governments and imposed juntas. The Army attempted an abortive coup during the Confederation but Washington (for whom the coup benefited) told them to stand down as he was a committed republican. There was another aborted coup during WW2 by the American Nazis that fell apart when their intended Führer turned out to be loyal to FDR and warned the Senate of the Nazi plot before they could make their move. The Senate didn't do anything (a good number were fascists) but it made the looming coup too obvious to move forward without serious loyalist resistance as happened in Spain.

A coup has never properly been attempted in America though more becuase of bad planning than any institutional barriers.

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